Your remark and the current NBC version of Prime Suspect make me think of  another idea for a thematic programming block:  "Two Televisions Separated by a Common Language," featuring English shows and the later American gloss on them.

That really *would* be interesting if done well.  I was thinking about it because RTV has been revisiting  Police Story.  

Ah, that's the secret to the whole thing.

Not to mention Vanishing Point…

Speaking of Kubrick, who else could have pulled off the ultimate downer ending as black comedy?  "Dr. Strangelove," of course.

A splendid nuance about "The Thing" that might have escaped my attention had I not seen it in the company of an expert:  Being a serious drunk, in all that he goes through, MacReady never drops or loses his bottle.

"The prequels are a bit like what would happen if an alien to the human race watched the Star Wars films and then tried to approximate their success himself."
An alien with a bad case of ADHD and a fair bit of self-inflicted hearing loss.  My first impression of The Frantic Menace,  er, The Phantom Meth-head, was…

Okay, one more.  The "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" episode in which the creepy cop-wannabe evidence technician holds Benson hostage.

"Seinfeld completely lost its appeal for me in the episode when Susan died. I was so appalled by the way everyone behaved that I couldn't watch it anymore."

Extrapolating from a scene-setting observation in one of Heinlein's juveniles, I think baseball would be one of the hardest sports to translate from one strength of gravitational field to another.  (It wouldn't be quite the same in atmospheres of different pressures and compositions, either, come to think of it.)   At…

Geddy Lee Marvin didn't care for "Star Trek: Deep Space 9":  >Maybe I'll get over it one day and try and watch the >series. Just seemed like a not-as-good Babylon 5and Jean-Luc Prickhard writes it so: > As for B5, good plotting but lousy characterization > and (IMO) mostly wooden actors.DS9 grabbed me almost…

These may be minority viewpoints, but I nominate what I think of as the "snakes on a plane" episode of House, M.D. (he and Cuddy are on an overseas flight when people start exhibiting lurid symptoms).  No more details for fear of spoilers, but let's just say some things happen that seem markedly out of character for…

That *would* have been a plausible episode of "Lassie," in its surreal final years. But rabies had been enough of a recurring plot element, starting with the very first season, that our hero surely had been vaccinated repeatedly.